PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 October 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr H. G. Sibley, of San Francisco, is staying at the Grand Hotel.

Mr 1.. V. Moses, architect, returned by the Niagara, after a trip to America.

Mr Edward Newman, MJF\ (Rangiti kei) is staying at the Northern Club.

Captain A. T. G. and Mrs Rhodes, of Christchureh, are at tho Star Hotel.

Dr. Ca'hill, of Wellington, died yesterday of heart failure. He had been in poor health.

Mr H. G. Price, late Commissioner of Crown lands, and chief surveyor at Blenheim, is dead.

Major Barton Adams, of Sydney, is at the Royal Hotel, also Mr H. Logan Russell, of Shanghai.

Mr J. D. Ritchie, chairman of the Land Purchase Board, left by train this morning for Te Awamutu.

Mr. C. H. Poole, M.F. for Auckland West, .arrived by the Niagara, accompanied by his wife and child.

Captain Eliot -M. King, Croix de Guerre, came to Auckland with his wife. He is on his way to Egypt.

Captain J. Ferguson, formerly navigating lieutenant of H.M.s. Avenger, was a passenger to Sydney by the Makirra.

Captain E. M. Litchfield has severed his connection with Victoria Military College and resigned from the N—.M.C, for health reasons.

Second-Lieutenant G. W. D. Mulgan, R.G.A., of Auckland, has been stationed at Alderehot for striae time being employed in training artillery drafts.

Mr. .1. D. Cairns, editor of the "Matanra Ensign" for the past ten years, died at Gore on Saturday unexpectedly of pleurisy, supervening on influenza.

Mr G- Coghill, of Blenheim, is at Cargen. Other arrivals include Mrs Strang (Palmerstou North), Mrs Bennett, Miss Vallanee and Mrs Hosking (Masterton), Mr J. ,1. Tait (SiamL

Lieute.nant D. Ferguson, of the Second Battalion, Canterbury Infantry, who was awarded a Military Crojss, was in the legal profession at Auckland when he enlisted, and left with the Fifteenth Reinforcements.

Mr Harold Beauchamp, chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, -risited Auckland to meet his daughter and her two children, who arrived by the Niagara. •She is the wife of Major J. Mackintosh Bell, formerly director of geological surveys in New Zealand, now attached to the Imperial forces on Epecial service ia , Ruseia.